News archive of March 2017

Northwest Bulgaria remains the region with the lowest income per capita in the EU, showed the latest Eurostat data.

The data measures the purchasing power of the population given the money they receive every month compared to local prices.

People in central London can afford consumption of 480% more than the average for the 28 member-states of the EU.

Bosnian Croat war veterans are demanding that after years of delay, Zagreb pays the retirement pensions they earned while fighting with the Croatian Defence Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bulgarian authorities will have to take into account the decisions made in future national referendums if at least 3,682,151 people have taken part in these.

This is the number of people who voted in the snap parliamentary elections on March 26, announced the Central Election Commission on Thursday.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has expressed his "strong support" to Aleksandar Vucic, a candidate in the April 2 presidential elections in Serbia.

Vucic's ruling SNS party said this in a statement on Thursday.

21,950,000 cigarettes without excise revenue stamps found, impounded in International Police Operation which started back in 2015, the Interior Ministry said in a press release on Thursday, according to BNR.

The operation cracked down on an international organized criminal group involved in contraband trade in tobacco.

MOSCOW - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday.

There is no doubt the friendly relations between the two countries will also be continued after the upcoming presidential elections in Serbia, Putin said briefly before the meeting resumed behind closed doors.

SARAJEVO - Dusko Vujosevic, the most decorated coach in the history of Partizan BC, has been named head coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national basketball team.

The Basketball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina board of directors on Monday unanimously appointed the current Limoges CSP coach ahead of Slovenia's Ales Pipan.

Tanjug file photo, D. Stankovic

MOSCOW - We can expect new Russian companies to come to Serbia, PM Aleksandar Vucic said recapping his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic and Christian Hellbach of the German Federal Foreign Office agreed on Monday the relations between the two countries were on a high level, while Hellbach highlighted the significance of regional stability and Serbia's constructive role in the Balkans for Germany.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, on Monday met with Ambassador Christian Hellbach, the German Federal Foreign Office's envoy for southeastern Europe.

Djuric briefed Hellbach on the course of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, the problems facing the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs and the political situation in the province.